Revolving fire-arm



(No Model.)

P. W. HOOD.

REVOLVING FIRE ARM.

No. 268,489. Patented Dec. 5, 1882.

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NITED STATES FREEMAN V. HOOD, OF NORWICH, CONNECTICUT.

REVOLVING FIRE-ARM.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 268,489, dated December 5, 1882.

Application filed September 25, 1882. (No model.)

'lo all whom it may concern Be it known that I, FREEMAN W. H001), of Norwich, in the county of New London, of the State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement; in Fire-Arms, termed. Revolvers, and Ido hereby declare the same to he described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure 1 is a longitudinal and Fig. 2 an under side view of the parts of a revolver to which my invention appertains, the nature of said invention being duly set forth in the claim hereinafterpresented. Theremainingh'gures, 3 and 4., are hereinafter explained.

Such invention is for the purpose of applying to advantage to the stock of the revolver, pistol, or fire-arm, and sustaining therein, the catch orlatch ot'the rotary charge-cylinder, as usually termed. To this end I form longitudinally within the bottom of the stock A, and just inadvance ofthe trigger B, a narrow recess or chamber, or, open or having its mouth at its lower part, and an opening, 1), leading upward out ofit (the said recess or chamber) at the forward part of its top. This recess or chamber is shown particularly in Figs. 3 and 4, (the first of said figures being a lengthwise section of it and the part of the stock in which it is situated, while the second is a transverse section thereof.) At the frontend of the said recess is a screw-threaded hole, 0, to receive a headed screw, d, whose diameter is longer than the width of the recess. ()n removal of the screw cl from the threaded hole 0 the lever-latch 0, provided with a spring, e, arranged in it as represented in Fig. 1, can readily be inserted within the recess, and with the catch part 12 of the said latch Within the opening I), after which the fulcrum-pinfof the latch can be inserted into the stock and through the latch. The

screw (1, being next screwed into the hole 0, serves as an abutmentfor the free arm of the spring to rest upon. The latch is represented in theposition it takes when the hammer l) isat half-cock. While the ham mer is being moved to full-cock the charge-cylinder will be partially revolved and the trigger be moved to enable the spring 6 to force the latch C upward into one of the locking-recesses of the cylinder. O11 thehammer being drawn backward to halfcook, the actuatingspring g of the trigger B will more the trigger so as to cause it to move the latch on its fulcrum outofengagl-ment with the cylinder, the spring 6 being by such movement of the latch contracted, in order for it by its expansive power to force the latch into engagement with the cylinder when such may next be required.

Before my invention it has been customary to have the recess open along its top and closed at bottom, whereby it became a matter often of much inconvenience or dilticulty, as Well in making such recess as in insertingthe latch into it or extracting it from it. \Vith my improvement these difficulties are avoided or very materially lessened.

1 claim- In a revolver, pistol, or fire-arm, the stock provided with the screwthreaded hole 0, and with the latch-chamber a, open at bottom and at top, and opening into such hole 0, substantially as set forth, in combination with the screw (1, screwed into such hole, and with the charge-cylinder latch C and its spring 0, arranged within such chamber, and with respect to the trigger and the said screw, essentially as represented.

F. W. HOOD.

Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, S. N. PIPER. 

